{"id":82721,"date":"2026-02-13T14:31:05","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T14:31:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=82721"},"modified":"2026-02-13T14:31:05","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T14:31:05","slug":"pedestrian-killed-crossing-abuja-highway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2026\/02\/13\/pedestrian-killed-crossing-abuja-highway\/","title":{"rendered":"Pedestrian Killed Crossing Abuja Highway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Patrick Idowu<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A pedestrian, Jonah Gilla Angbaku, was killed on Thursday after he was knocked down by a vehicle while attempting to cross a busy junction in Abuja city centre.<\/p>\n<p>A witness, Ali Muhammad, said the deceased had alighted from a commercial vehicle under the Wuye junction bridge and was crossing toward the NAFDAC junction when a speeding Mercedes-Benz SUV hit him and dragged his body several metres.<\/p>\n<p>Muhammad said the driver appeared to slow down but suddenly sped off.<\/p>\n<p>A police officer at the scene said the location had recorded several similar incidents since last year.<\/p>\n<p>Items recovered from the deceased included a mobile phone, smartwatch, driver\u2019s licence, ATM cards, wallet and an identity card from G4S security firm.<\/p>\n<p>The case is to be handed over to the Wuye Police Division for investigation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Patrick Idowu A pedestrian, Jonah Gilla Angbaku, was killed on Thursday after he was knocked down by a vehicle while attempting to cross a busy junction in Abuja city centre. A witness, Ali Muhammad, said the deceased had alighted from a commercial vehicle under the Wuye junction bridge and was crossing toward the NAFDAC [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":82722,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82721"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82721\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82723,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82721\/revisions\/82723"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}